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Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center
The National Center for Atmospheric Research won’t be losing its supercomputer.
TL;DR
- The Trump administration announced plans to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and transfer its supercomputing center.
- UCAR, the manager of NCAR, sued the government and obtained a preliminary injunction halting the transfer.
- The judge ruled the government's decision was arbitrary and capricious and violated the Administrative Procedures Act.
- UCAR demonstrated it would suffer irreparable harm from staff attrition and difficulty finding replacements.
- The injunction specifically blocks the transfer of the supercomputing center resources, but other threats to NCAR persist.